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Sure, Rosenqvist I would have been thrilled with. Then again, clearly finances played a part. If Sirotkin is two tenths slower, but can bring funds that should allow improvements to cover those two tenths, well then Sirotkin's money is simply making the two cars faster despite being slower himself.

Picking a well funded average driver can be better than a poorly funded above average driver. Of course the dream is to bag someone like Alonso, technically a pay driver yet also a proven world champion driver. Santander surely contributed large sums of money to various teams.

Let's be honest, I don't think Sirotkin is the worst on this list. Others are affiliated with various teams or simply unwilling to join Williams. I'd say out of the drivers likely willing to race for Williams in 2018, Sirotkin is in my top 3 behind Kvyat and Wehrlein. Still, Wehrlein was supposedly too young and Kvyat does not come from a good season at Toro Rosso.

Palmer is simply not impressive enough, Nasr never was fast enough (even though he had ties to Williams), Kubica apparently wasn't the one they went for and we can only speculate why, and di Resta is too old and inexperienced and never did impress enough during his spell in F1.

I can't be too upset with Sirotkin, although keeping Stroll is arguably a stranger choice despite his P3 in Azerbaijan. No denying Stroll kept his cool when so many others (pretty much all of them) crashed.